The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking, to which are Prefixed Two Essays: I. On Elocution. II. On Reading Works of TasteWilliam Enfield Stereotyped by Andrew Wilson, 1823 - 346 páginas |
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... beauty , and excellence , as they are exhibited in works of taste , to produce a general habit of dignity and ele- gance , which will seldom fail to tincture a man's general cha- racter , and diffuse a graceful air over his whole ...
... beauty , and excellence , as they are exhibited in works of taste , to produce a general habit of dignity and ele- gance , which will seldom fail to tincture a man's general cha- racter , and diffuse a graceful air over his whole ...
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... Beauty , and Novelty . Those conceptions , expressed in writing , which are adapt- ed to excite in the mind of the reader that kind of emotion , which arises from the contemplation of grand and noble ob- jects in nature , are said to be ...
... Beauty , and Novelty . Those conceptions , expressed in writing , which are adapt- ed to excite in the mind of the reader that kind of emotion , which arises from the contemplation of grand and noble ob- jects in nature , are said to be ...
Página xxxviii
... beauty , and are adapted to excite emotions of complacence , those writers who represent their fair forms , whether natural or moral , with the most lively colouring , are said to excel in the BEAUTIFUL . Moreover , since there is in ...
... beauty , and are adapted to excite emotions of complacence , those writers who represent their fair forms , whether natural or moral , with the most lively colouring , are said to excel in the BEAUTIFUL . Moreover , since there is in ...
Página xxxix
... beauty of regularity amid va- riety ; and without this , the detached parts , however excel- lent , are but the members of a disjointed statue * . The reader , therefore , who wishes to form an accurate judgment concerning the merit of ...
... beauty of regularity amid va- riety ; and without this , the detached parts , however excel- lent , are but the members of a disjointed statue * . The reader , therefore , who wishes to form an accurate judgment concerning the merit of ...
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... beauty was natural and easy , her person clean and unspotted , her eyes cast to- ward the ground with an agreeable reserve , her motion and behaviour full of modesty , and her raiment as white as snow . The other had a great deal of ...
... beauty was natural and easy , her person clean and unspotted , her eyes cast to- ward the ground with an agreeable reserve , her motion and behaviour full of modesty , and her raiment as white as snow . The other had a great deal of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
army Balaam beauty behold bliss bosom breast Brutus Cæsar CHAP cheerful cried daughter death earth elocution endeavour eternal Eust ev'n ev'ry fate father fear feel fool fortune Fram Gauls give Gods grace Grongar Hill hand happy hast hath head hear heard heart Heav'n honour hope Iago kind king labour live look lord Macd mankind Maria marriage means mind motley fool Muse nature Nature's never noble nymph o'er once pain pass'd passion peace perfection person pity pleasure poor pow'r praise privy counsellor racter round Scythians sense sentence SHAKSPEARE Sir John smile SNEYD DAVIES soul sound speak spirit Sterl sweet Syphax taste tears tell Theana thee thing thou thought Tis green truth uncle Toby vex'd virtue virtuous voice whole wind wisdom wise words youth
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Página 335 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die : to sleep...
Página 227 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre.
Página 321 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
Página 326 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection: I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?
Página 315 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Página 157 - Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is call'd the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
Página 307 - No matter where ; of comfort no man speak : Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs ; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth...
Página 333 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Página 194 - As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone.
Página 344 - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy ! Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage or kindle soft desire.